I am very excited to announce that the Elaine Delmar Quintet is performing for our Herne Bay Jazz Festival 2025 benefit concert in partnership with The Kings Hall, in Herne Bay, Kent, on Friday 28th February 2025. Following her sold-out [...]
Herbie Hancock once opined that the spirit of jazz was the spirit of openness. The Herne Bay Jazz Festival organisers, including its musical director, vocalist Kai Hoffman, have tapped into that feeling perfectly. It’s a non-profit festival and most of [...]
“I originally started the festival because I found there were many similarities, to me, between the beautiful east Kent coast and the classic film Jazz on a Summer’s Day at the Newport Jazz Festival,” says Herne Bay Festival Director Kai [...]
John Etheridge’s Blue Spirits will be performing at a Benefit Concert for the Herne Bay Jazz Festival at the King’s Hall in Herne Bay on 20 April. In this interview, John talks about guitars…Sting…the passing of John Marshall…and starts with [...]
Kai Hoffman, East Kent’s answer to George Wein, runs a great little jazz festival in Herne Bay which took place over this past weekend. I hopped across from Deal and caught much of Sunday’s music which was taking place at [...]
Kai Hoffman was inspired by the film ‘Jazz on a Summer’s Day‘ to start the Herne Bay Jazz and Swing Festival. 2023 presents the sixth edition, at which 95% of the events are free admission, and just two have a [...]
“Everything you want from a British seaside but with amazing music thrown in for one weekend” is how Kai Hoffman describes the Herne Bay Jazz and Swing Festival, taking place at the Pier Stage on 20 and 21 August. All [...]
What if jazz wasn’t always tucked away in hidden places to be pored over by cognoscenti, but actually, occasionally to be heard out there in public places, resonating invitingly throughout a town, where the curious can find out what it’s [...]
On 20-22 August 2021, the Herne Bay Jazz and Swing Festival will take place on the beautiful east Kent coast. This fourth festival features their biggest lineup ever and includes some of the U.K.’s finest, including names like Strictly Come [...]
Halfway through this great concert in the cavernous Edwardian treasure that is The King’s Hall, I realised why Elaine Delmar is such an exceptional artist and not just a singer with enormous emotional depth and natural talent. She inhabits a [...]
